Hermetica by Brian P Copenhaver

Hermetica by Brian P Copenhaver

The Hermetica are a body of theological-philosophical texts written in late antiquity, but long believed to be much older. Their supposed author, Hermes Trismegistus, was thought to be a contemporary of Moses, and the Hermetic philosophy was regarded as an ancient theology, parallel to the received wisdom of the Bible. This first English translation based on reliable texts, together with Brian P. Copenhaver's comprehensive introduction, provide an indispensable resource to scholars in ancient philosophy and religion, early Christianity, Renaissance literature, and history, the history of science, and the occultist tradition in which the Hermetica have become canonical texts.

'A highly readable and reliable translationBecause it also embodies in its text and in its very extensive commentary the critical scholarship of the last ninety years, Copenhaver's translation will remain the canonical English version of the seventeen treatises of the Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius for a long time to come … Copenhaver's introduction, which runs some sixty pages, is a wonderful summing-up of the history, literature and problems of Hermeticism from antiquity to the present day … The commentary is virtually an encyclopedia of the scholarship … with generous citations of the relevant literature on Neoplatonism, Christian Gnosticism, the Bible and classical religious history thrown in to complete the picture.' British Journal for the History of Science

At the University of California, Los Angeles, Brian P. Copenhaver is a Distinguished Professor and the Udvar-Hazy Chair of Philosophy and History. He is a member of the council of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento in Italy, as well as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and previous president of the Journal of the History of Philosophy. Rinascimento, Renaissance Quarterly, Annals of Science, Journal of the History of Ideas, Early Science and Medicine, the International Archives of the History of Ideas, and the I Tatti Renaissance Library are among the organizations on which he serves or has served. Peter of Spain's Summaries of Logic (2014, with Calvin Normore and Terry Parsons) is the most recent of his eleven works.

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ISBN 13	9780521425438
ISBN 10	0521425433
Title	Hermetica
Author	Brian P Copenhaver
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1995-10-12
Number of pages	408
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